• Filmsetting

    Verb

    present participle

    1. Present participle of filmset

    Full definition of filmsetting

    Noun

    filmsetting

    (usually uncountable; plural filmsettings)
    1. Photocomposition of type.
      • 1968, Dorothy A. Harrop, Modern book production, There is too, at this point in time, an aesthetic disadvantage to filmsetting in that the range of type faces specially designed for it is still extremely limited.
      • 1979, E. L. Dellow, A First Course in Proof Correcting (page 110)However, filmsettings are sometimes made deliberately over size, with the intention that they shall be photographically reduced - some of the machines cannot cope with type sizes smaller than about eight or ten point.
      • 2006, Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters, But on the filmsetting machine, the matrix case, which on the hot-metal caster had contained metal matrices, now contained tiny photographic negatives of each character.
      • 2007, John Lewis, Typography: Design and Practice, In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard.
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